PNCA Campus

NORTH PARK BLOCKS CAMPUS

PNCA’s new campus is centered on the tree-lined North Park Blocks in downtown Portland in a neighborhood that is home to most of the city’s art galleries with regional, national, and international exhibitions. PNCA’s new Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design is a historic Federal Building reimagined by award-winning architect Brad Cloepfil. PNCA’s ArtHouse student housing and Museum of Contemporary Craft are just blocks away on the park.

The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design houses PNCA’s classrooms, galleries, public gathering spaces such as the Atrium (pictured above) and New Commons, Mediatheque black box theater, the Gordon Gilkey Print Studio, state of the art facilities for our Media Arts programs, the Center4Design or C4D (a professional design studio and headquarters for the Communication Design department), Painting and Drawing studios, Object Studies Lab, Al Solheim Library, BridgeLab, and administrative offices.

The Stagecraft Building is the 14,000 square foot home of PNCA’s Fabrication Labs for ceramics, wood, and metal, as well as studios for thesis students and students in the MFA in Visual Studies program. It is a short walk from the park on NW Johnson and 13th.